The September 25 evening program of the New York City Ballet’s fall season opened with Opus 19/The Dreamer, set to Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, the composer’s first violin concerto and often referred to as “music in technicolor.” So, too, Jerome Robbins’ colorful dance, with lead couple Tiler Peck and Gonzalo Garcia, and a…
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New York City Ballet stuns with fall program
NYCB stuns in fall opening program
PNB’s Wonderfully Diverse Rep
Pacific Northwest Ballet is a master in programming—variety, diversity, complexity. Case in point: Two very different PNB programs, one, all new choreography (Rep 4) and then the other, one of classical ballet’s greatest comedies, Coppélia (Rep 5). My cursory notes suggest a whole lot of great dancing. Highlights for me are below. … Rep (Program)…
Olivier Wevers’ “This Is Not the Little Prince”
Olivier Wevers’ This Is Not the Little Prince is a captivating and emotional work. It is demanding on the dancers for the challenging movement and ensemble psyche Wevers asks them to create onstage. The piece is both playful and dramatic, a tour de force of surrealism. As I wrote in Dance Magazine, “[the piece]…
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Fall dance programs—Digital triumph, critical success
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Fall dance programs were both digital triumph and critical success. Kudos to artistic director Peter Boal and his administrative and artistic staff for presenting such stunning and sensitive dance to the world. Reviews, in brief Rep I (streamed in October). PNB’s Rep I featured George Balanchine’s Jewels, but all the pieces on…
Bravo! Mark Morris Dance Group performs!
See here for details—40 years of lyrical joy: Mark Morris Dance Group performs. Image/credit: https://markmorrisdancegroup.org/digital-access/
Wendy Perron’s Dance
Read this terrific book: The Grand Union: Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance, 1970-1976 New York Times: Grand Union at the New York City Dance Marathon, at the 14th Street Y in 1971/Credit James Klosty, via Wesleyan University Press
Helping dancers work together!
An interesting story, on keeping dancers working.
FoodWISE and a new sugar
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, more on sensory science, and introduces a new kind of sugar.
FoodWISE and Gigi’s favorite one paragraph, packed with nutritional messages
Image: Doughnuts, not as bad as you think (depending……………..on if and how much sugar, and how the doughnuts are “fried”) Gigi reads FoodWISE, and highlights the one paragraph in the book that says it all. (nutritionally-speaking) And here’s scientific article back-up: what’s up with fiber and whole grains?